Melodies of Vera Quarter

1973 film

Giorgi Shengelaia
Anzor Salukvadze

Starring

Sofiko Chiaureli
Vakhtang Kikabidze
Ia Ninidze
Maia Kankava
Dodo Abashidze

CinematographyAleksandre MgebrishviliMusic byGiorgi Tsabadze

Production
company

Kartuli Pilmi

Distributed byRUSCICO (2004)

Release date

1973 (1973)

Running time

97 minutesCountries

Georgia
Soviet Union

LanguageGeorgian

Melodies of Vera Quarter (Georgian: ვერის უბნის მელოდიები) is a 1973 Georgian musical film directed by Giorgi Shengelaia.

Plot

Pavle, who is a poor cart-driver has two girls, Maro and Tamro. The girls have a dream to take classes at a ballet school, but Pavle cannot afford such a luxury. Vardo, a laundress, decides to help the little girls. For that purpose she steals a cattle, firewood and a mink coat from a rich merchant's house. She warms up Pavle's house with the stolen firewood and pays tutorship for the girls' ballet classes. Vardo gets caught for larceny. All the laundresses in the neighborhood go on strike in Vardo's support. Scared chief of local police sets Vardo free and enlists the girls in the ballet school.